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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by alphadevx on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:26AM (#6604572)
It's very heavy handed. It has not been 100% verified that the site was compromised, and a lot of very technically smart PHP community members are looking hard at this. It may prove to be a false positive or otherwise, but in the meantime:

1. Google is blocking access to the site in Chrome.

2. Firefox is warning users that php.net is not to be trusted (it uses the same list of infected sites provided by Google).

3. Google is warning users on Google Search that "This site may harm your computer.".

4. Google's appeals process is slow and cumbersome.

So yeah, that is a lot of power for one company.

If this happened to your website due to, for example a false positive, you would be pretty unhappy. Only a high profile project like PHP gets this kind of attention, but I'd happily wager that many smaller websites suffer the same faith every day.

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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by dchest on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:52AM (#6604661)
This is exactly what happens when your website serves malware. Unhappy about it? Don't serve malware from your website.
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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by nilved on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:55PM (#6608278)
When your website serves what Google considers malware, you mean.
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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by alphadevx on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:55AM (#6604676)
And what about the false positive scenario?
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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by pilif on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:55AM (#6604949)
A site we once had under development was incorrectly flagged. I reported the error via the webmaster tools and after less than 20 minutes, the warning went away.
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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by dchest on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:02AM (#6604695)
I don't know. Any examples? Perhaps, you should ask the victims of such false positives.
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Re:Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing by thisisnotatest on Friday October 25, 2013 @06:12PM (#6615005)
If you can find any.
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